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Date: Mar 2024
Examines the availability of behavioral health providers who actively serve Medicare or Medicaid enrollees in 20 counties, 10 urban and 10 rural, across 10 states in 2021. Explores the extent to which traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid enrollees received behavioral health services and whether they used telehealth or in-person services. Offers recommendations to encourage more behavioral health providers to serve these enrollees and expand coverage to additional behavioral health provider types. Includes rural and urban comparisons throughout.
...telehealth or in-person services. Offers recommendations to encourage more behavioral health providers to serve...
Date: Sep 2014
Describes strategies and practices that enable local health departments and healthcare organizations serving rural areas to assist their communities during emergencies resulting in medical surge. Explores ways to ensure adequate levels of care for all patients, including telehealth services and integrated information sharing systems.
...telehealth services and integrated information sharing systems. --- Responding to Medical Surge in Rural Communities: Practices...
Date: May 2022
Podcast with Tom Morris of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy about trends related to the rural healthcare workforce and efforts to overcome challenges. Discusses the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, rural hospital closures, telehealth, graduate medical education in rural areas, community health workers, community paramedics, funding opportunities to promote healthcare access in rural areas, the opioid crisis, and more.
...telehealth, graduate medical education in rural areas, community health workers, community paramedics, funding opportunities to promote...
Date: Mar 2024
Examines the impacts of COVID-19 on the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment system. Provides information from 25 interviews with rural and urban community supervision clinicians within the Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC). Discusses issues such as telehealth, technological challenges, inter/intra-agency collaboration, client information, and more.
...telehealth, technological challenges, inter/intra-agency collaboration, client information, and more. --- Rural and Urban Clinician Views on COVID...
Date: Jan 2019
Examines policy and funding options to provide for the long-term sustainability of Project ECHO, a telehealth mentoring program supporting the health workforce in rural and underserved areas. Offers state and federal policy recommendations, discussing how each would work, action steps, and feasibility.
...telehealth mentoring program supporting the health workforce in rural and underserved areas. Offers state and federal...
Date: Aug 2012
Discusses the Rural Health Care Pilot Program which has helped healthcare providers obtain broadband capability to implement telemedicine and telehealth applications.
...capability to implement telemedicine and telehealth applications. 08/2012 Federal Communications Commission Broadband · Funding · Healthcare networks · Telehealth...
Date: May 2026
Examines how rural versus urban and racial and ethnic tele-behavioral health access varied before and during the early COVID-19 pandemic in New Mexico, using March 2019-March 2021 Medicaid claims data. Includes data comparisons of telehealth and in-person visits by demographic group, type of behavioral health service received, and level of broadband connectivity.
...telehealth and in-person visits by demographic group, type of behavioral health service received, and level...
Date: Nov 2020
Provides an overview of Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) programs and activities that have affected rural health and healthcare in fiscal year 2020. Focuses on nine priority areas: COVID-19, maternal health, Medicare Advantage (MA) and the Federally-facilitated Marketplace (FFM), quality improvement, practitioner engagement, patient empowerment and person-centered care, Medicare and Medicaid payment and policy, models and demonstrations, and telehealth.
...telehealth. --- Rethinking Rural Health: FY 2020 Year in Review Provides an overview of Centers for Medicaid...
Date: Sep 2025
Comment on a July 16, 2025, Federal Register proposed rule revising the physician fee schedule to improve payment systems for physicians and other Medicare Part B revisions. Includes a discussion of a proposal to allow Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to provide and bill for medical visits via telehealth and be paid at Physician Fee Schedule (PFS)-equivalent rates through December 2026.
...telehealth and be paid at Physician Fee Schedule (PFS)-equivalent rates through December 2026. --- MedPAC...
Date: Aug 2025
Examines changes in mental healthcare utilization between 2019 and 2023. Utilizes National Health Interview Survey data to compare rural and nonrural trends related to mental health utilization, therapy, and medication. Discusses the impact of telehealth options and the COVID-19 pandemic on mental healthcare availability.
...telehealth options and the COVID-19 pandemic on mental healthcare availability. --- Trends in Mental Health...